Integration monitor is a daily Latvian press digest on ethnic minority and society integration issues. The Monitor reviews the biggest Latvian dailies: Diena, Latvijas Avize, Neatkariga (in Latvian language), Vesti Segodnya (in Russian language). In specific cases other information sources are used. Latvian Centre for Human Rights is not responsible for information published by the media.

• Ex-President of Latvia Guntis Ulmanis is glad that Russian language in Latvia is gaining more significance
• Inspectors of the State Language Centre have punished a schools director for insufficient usage of state language at work

At the “Baltic Forum” conference on relations between the EU and Russia, held in Jurmala last weekend, an ex-President of Latvia Guntis Ulmanis, has stated that he is glad that Russian language in Latvia is gaining more significance, while the talk about Russian language in Latvia being unnecessary is a thing of the past.

At the Baltic Forum conference on relations between the EU and Russia, held in Jurmala last weekend, an ex-President of Latvia Guntis Ulmanis, has stated that he is glad that Russian language in Latvia is gaining more significance, while the talk about Russian language in Latvia being unnecessary is a thing of the past. Chas, Vesti Segodnya

NRA reports that inspectors of the State Language Centre have punished a schools director for insufficient usage of state language at work.